APES- Topic 5: Land & Water Use
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(mainly Forestry Issues, Agriculture, Meat Production,Fishing, & Mining)
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The Tragedy of the Commons
“when publicly accessible resources are open to unregulated exploration, they tend to become overused, damaged, and depleted”
causes: individuals profit but all share costs of exploitation, idea of getting “fair share”, seeing a resource as vast, no immediate penalty
Deforestation
Old Growth Forests
Secondary Growth Forests
Clear-Cutting
Slash & Burn Method
Sustainable Forestry
Selective Logging
Strip Cutting
Plantation Forests
Low Intensity Fires
Prescribed Burns
Selective Cutting
Green Revolution
Monoculture
Industrialized Agriculture
Plantation Agriculture
Traditional or Subsistence Agriculture
Slash-&-Burn Agriculture
Furrow Irrigation
Flood Irrigation
Spray Irrigation
Drip Irritation
Soil Salinization
Conservation Tillage/ No-Till Farming
Contour Plowing
Terracing
Shelter Belts
Cover crops
Crop Rotation
Intercropping
Green manure & compost
limestone
Integrates Pest Management (IPM)
Concentrated Animial Feeding Operations (CAFO’s)
Manure Lagoons
Free Range Grazing
Overgrazing
Fisheries
Long-line Fishing
Drift Nets
Trawling
Purse Sein
Sonar
Addressing Overfishing
Addreessing ByCatch
Aquaculture
smelting
acid mine drainage
open pit mining
mountain top removal
placer mining
subsurface mining
mine reclamation
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